What do you do when Domino’s get your pizza order wrong and you’ve been left waiting a week for the replacement? The correct answer is: Put on your best sadface and go to the local paper. Vicky here is therefore winning at life, even if she is down to the tune of one pizza. Plymouth…

Are you a superhero? If you are, you have been taught how to do the superhero landing at superhero school. If you are a normo, then you just have to learn to do it yourself. Exmouth Journal: Area man says Exmouth’s pavements are cracking up under the force of his superhero landings Nailed it. But seriously,…

We all need our bins emptied. It’s just that we don’t want our rubbish to be taken anywhere near where we live. Middlewich Guardian: Council to allow new rubbish processing facility to open for a trial period to see how things grow, prompting mass thumbs-downing from locals And that is some fine thumbs down work. FACT:…

Shit, as they say, just got real. This chap is annoyed that nobody is taking responsibility for the sand on the beach near to his house. Some days it’s on the beach and that’s OK. But other days, a wind gets up and there’s sand everywhere and surely somebody’s to blame. Somerset County Gazette: Why oh why oh…

A town is at war. The situation has got so serious that the town clerk is having to protect himself, and council meetings are being held behind closed doors. All over the price of onions in the allotment holders’ shop. Northern Echo: Nice-guy gardener who gives much of his produce away find that his crops have…

One of the unwritten rules of local journalism is that when you do a story about poo, you don’t actually show the actual brown pies. Rules (unwritten or otherwise) are made to be broken, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. North Shore Times: “Take a look at the crap I’ve had to clear off my…

If you thought that angry people pointing at the thing that has annoyed them for their local newspaper is a phenomenon purely in the English-speaking world, then you are wrong. Here are some of the inhabitants of the German city of Wolfsburg taking it out on the local bird population: Wolfsburg Allgemeiner Zeitung (in German): Residents…

To add to our ever-expanding list of people you should never piss off is the English gardener. They have access to sharp tools and bottles of chemicals (often several decades old) that dissident Irish republicans would be pleased to get their hands on. Essex Live: Gardener absolutely fuming that rose plants he ordered three weeks ago…

Remember these guys? They were shocked and disgusted after the local council in Sheffield cut their grass verges and didn’t clear up after themselves. Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”? Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type…

Minimum requirement for running a council in the UK: Emptying the bins every week. Let’s pop in on UKIP-controlled Thanet to see how things are getting on bin-wise in Little England. Oh. The Isle of Thanet News: Woman is so sick of council missing her bins that she’s cut out the middle man and taken several…